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YORK — Frances Goodwin Holt reported for duty at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown on June 20, 1966, to work as a chemist in naval mine warfare. She was about 26, barely 5 feet tall, a mere 90 pounds and one of only a handful of women who worked at the secluded facility at the time. On her first day, a supervisor looked her over, Holt recalled. "Audrey looked at me critically, up one side and down the other," she said. "She threw back her head and shouted over her shoulder ... 'Well, the government is not getting much for its money!'" Holt said she could have quit that first day. She didn't. Instead she stuck it out, eventually becoming the...

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YORK — Frances Goodwin Holt reported for duty at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown on June 20, 1966, to work as a chemist in naval mine warfare.
She was about 26, barely 5 feet tall, a mere 90 pounds and one of only a handful of women who worked at the...

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